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cross-posted from: https://discuss.online/post/40375880
I think because they're all made to believe people only want to take advantage of them.
Most of the people against it are people who have been lucky most of their life. They were born into money, they were able to get a good education, they have always been able to get a good paying job, their hard work paid off, all that stuff. They never had any trouble so believe nobody should get the help they don't need themselves.
Idk about that; for example, most Republicans are barely highschool grads, statistically the poorest people in America. I think if you track reactionary sentiment in general it is most prevalent in the lowest socioeconomic brackets worldwide. True, the propagators of reactionary ideologies are people of means, but, in a capitalist system with capitalist media, the most effective propagators of ANY ideology are people of means. Sure, those ideologies are always going to be skewed in the class interests of the owning class, but, all I'm saying is we need to be more open to calling class traitors out as the dumbfucks they are.
I understand your point. I didn't include the brainwashed sheep because I don't consider them to even understand what they hate. However, in my socialist country the socialist party leaders are mostly middle class people. I actually even vote for a party that has people that worked the floor in supermarkets and warehouses. It's extremely clear that in my country the middle class runs the left and the upper class runs the right. (And of course the right gained their following because of "immigrants" and passive racism.)
They’re just selfish. I don’t think it’s always keeping others from having something, it’s themselves not benefitting from it directly. They cannot understand logical complex systems more than a step or two removed from their direct line of sight. For example, public education provides so much more than just free education. Food, safe spaces after school, clubs, and the education itself all provide stability, reduction in crime, better health, all of which benefit society as a whole. But they can’t see that. They can’t conceive of the bicycle not stolen, the car not broken into, the kid who got a job instead of being homeless.